Why us?

We at Wow Labz are always striving to look for exciting problems to solve. Whether we’re creating new products or helping a small startup extend its reach, we build from our heart. We’re entrepreneurial and we love new ideas. Fun culture with a team that cares about your development and growth.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a great Android developer who would be responsible for developing maintenance of applications aimed at a range of Android devices including mobile phones and tablet computers. Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services. You will be working alongside and guiding other junior engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build applications for the Android platform
• Architect whole applications and guide the project to completion
• Guide junior developers
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Publishing application on Play Store.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Experience with integrating app with REST Apis, Web services and RPC.
• Experience with Kotlin, Jetpack components & Rx Java.
• Understanding of OOPS, MVC, MVP, MVVM and design patterns is a must.
• 2+ years of experience developing mobile applications
• Strong OOPS concepts, component-based development and basic computing skills – OS concepts, threads, data structures, networking, SQL and XML.
• Expert Knowledge on developing Universal Apps for different Phones and Tablets.
• Good knowledge of working with the Bluetooth API provided in the Android framework.
• Good knowledge of Hybrid environment either ReactNative or Flutter.
• Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Experience in working with Continuous Integration.
• Clean architecture and unit testing-oriented coding
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable code
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git, BitBucket, etc
• Experience with Google Play App Publishing
• Experience with android architecture components (Jetpack libraries)
• A good eye for detail
• Experience with third-party libraries and hands-on experience with firebase, marketing analytics and  Android debugging tools.
• Ability to help other devs in bottleneck situations
• We would also need to see if you are a culture fit.

Nice to have

• Expert knowledge of client-side security and performance
• Live apps on Playstore will be a big plus
• Involvement in OpenSource projects, public repositories would be an added advantage
• Experience with creating custom controls
• A knack for benchmarking and optimisation
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability